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@ Rain - How does he know all these things? He started training at 12-13 and is 17 now. How does he have so much varied skills and can beat grown men with them? He'd have to train 10 years minimum just to get a few skills since one isn't exactly closely knit to the other.

@ Eratas: Raw experience. When pitted against something, you learn from little experiences and quirks while doing said thing.

Say, when you're fighting: When somebody kicks your ass to the curb, you take note of the little things. Posture, where getting hit hurts the most, where to move little by little to get in the right place to block and counter attack.

5 years of raw experience to pick these things up and master them. Henceforth why he's an honorary Spetsnaz, after more than a year of being beaten up from dawn to dusk by a Russian in a broken down hospital. Oh, on a side note, he goes back to Chernobyl to train over the years, he didn't go there for just a one time thing.

He focuses on skills that would help him in the future. For knives, he learned the basics of Eskrima, but he's no master. He can kill people just fine with it though. For guns, he trained with Sonia. For swords, Tabane kicked his ass in kendo. And so on, he picked up little details and skills he continues to brush up to the present day.

@ Rain - Then where does the black ops, bomb defusal, and government level hacking come in? I understand him being skilled, it's just the fact that he's skilled in so many things that seems odd. For example, Irish is good in hacking and sneaking. He's poor in unarmed combat and frontal assault, gunwielding is low as well. His knife combat is average but he fights unorthodoxly which means he surprises opponents.

So he's only good in sneaking, hacking, and knife fighting. Everything else tends to be bad.

@ Eratas: The skills he uses for black operations are the skills he uses outside of them, but under black ops, he just operates under the radar.

Bomb defusal is something he just picked up as a kid, before actually physically training. He sat in a few classes while growing up on the ALBATROSS. But he's useless when it comes to higher class bombs. The closest thing he can disarm is a C4 charge used by most militants, but when it comes to the hellfire bombs, he's useless. He doesn't know what to do with it, and whatever he does has a good chance of setting it off.

Government level hacking? Started at the age of 7, the result of Tabane being very enthusiastic when her son wanted to learn how to use a computer. At first, it was just so he could play some video games a soldier lent to him. The game was Counter-Strike, which unintentionally brought him to light on the whole action concept. It grew level by level until he actually got into tagging along smaller policing/patrol missions with his dad.

Things he's useless in:

- Musical instruments: Lacks the delicacy to play anything. Somehow manages to shatter glass with a triangle of all things.

- Precise Medical Procedure: He'd be the world's worst surgeon, that's for sure. His habit when holding a sharp thing would be to analyze a person's vitals and the best way to cut them up. Then he'd cut too much by accident, and the person would be dead within seconds.

- Any medical procedure with the patient being someone he personally knows: He'd panic beyond comprehension, thinking that he'd just as soon unintentionally hurt them as help them.

- Unable to concentrate when not under pressure: His mind tends to drift off constantly. When his mind is under pressure, it makes him focus. Think of the pressure (whatever it may be) as a funnel, his mind pressed through it until it relaxes enough to go with the flow. When not under pressure, his mind's as loose as liquid, he can't concentrate unless he deeply wants to concentrate. Which is why his monologues always get off track somehow. He'll go with the flow, but just can't seem to pinpoint focus.

- Can't handle any weapon for the first time without hurting himself (or others) somehow: First time handling a brand new knife? Cut himself. First time holding a new gun? Shot someone in the foot. Get the picture?

- Prone to exessive bleeding: Don't get a bandage on him or seal the cut in any way quickly, he'll pass out due to bleeding out much more blood than a person normally would. Give him a paper cut, if unattended to, he'll feel faint in half an hour. Which is why he's prone to serious scarring.

Anyway, how are his acrobatics? As in flips and other agility based moves.

The medical thing is interesting. Ichika is clueless as well so Irish is the only one among the three who can use first aid. Treating injured teammates after they get attacked by IS units tend to make you pick up a few things.

@ Eratas and Jak: He can sing, but when handling something that needs delicacy to be operated that isn't a computer or technology, he either wrecks it or becomes a wreck himself.

Also, he's not that acrobatic. He's flexible enough to freerun and fight with most of his styles, but he's not that flexible to do that kind of acrobatics, and would probably hurt himself 9 out of 10 times just trying to attempt it.

@ Rain - Okay, this is for the fight scene in chapter 5. How tall is Kyuukai exactly? Also, how muscular? I need to know since the fight is kind of like a David vs Goliath where Kyuukai is stronger but Irish is more agile.

@eratas: I rethought the few days thing and realized that maybe it would take ISA some time to process the papers, and that a few days seems really short. The time frame for Rong being stuck in America is now 2-3 weeks. In that span of time, I was thinking that he could get on friendly terms with America's IS research facility, have an ISA representative staff give him a look/check(to see if he's safe), and Fillia teaches him how to be normal and lays down some ground rules.